Scott Shepherd
06-08-2010, 8:37 PM
For the last 7-10 days I have been getting woke up (grammar?) at 4:30 each morning by a group of scream red tail hawks that have nested in the neighbors tree. To be honest, it was getting a little bit old as they start at 4:30 each morning and they don't stop. I leave for work and they are still screaming.
I was about to take action on my window and do something to stop the sound so I could get a good night sleep for a change.
So I walk out the door 3 days ago they are screaming like mad. I have a large tree in my front yard and I detected the screaming coming from that, so I walked under it to see if I could see the hawk. I couldn't see it, but I heard more screams behind me, so I turned around to look, and sitting on my roof are 3 baby red tail hawks! All big enough to just start flying (far enough to go from the tree to my roof).
I decided it probably wasn't a good place to be, between a momma hawk and her babies, so I got it the truck and watched them for a minute. One took off and flew to a near by tree. Cool. Camera is at work. Darn it.
Next morning, I walk out, it's quiet for a change. I get to my truck and look in front of it and one of them is sitting on my fence, just hanging out. Camera still at work. Rats. Take photo with the phone. Get in the truck, look, and notice another one on the ground beside it, just looking around. I watch them for a few minutes, then start the truck and back up. About 10 feet back, I look and notice there is a full size bunny rabbit sitting right in front of the two of them. No more than 6 feet from either of them. They pay it no attention. Not wanting to clean up bunny parts, I chase them off and let the rabbit escape. Obviously they haven't learned that bunnies are food yet, or they wouldn't have been sitting there, all hanging out together.
I walk out this morning, 2 in my yard, just standing there. One was picking at something, one just standing there. Get my camera, rats, left better lens at work.... so I walk up about 10 feet from them, they carry on like I'm not there. I take a few photos and start to walk in the house. I look up, 2 more sitting on an old antenna on my house (yes, I know I need to take it down).
So 4 red tail hawks, all just hanging out, 2 in the yard, 2 on the roof.
Pretty cool to see so many so close. The squirrels were running all around the yard like nothing was wrong, about 15 feet from the two on the ground. Again, they obviously haven't learned to hunt yet.
The last photo, you can see the hawk on the fence and the rabbit at the edge of the driveway.
I was about to take action on my window and do something to stop the sound so I could get a good night sleep for a change.
So I walk out the door 3 days ago they are screaming like mad. I have a large tree in my front yard and I detected the screaming coming from that, so I walked under it to see if I could see the hawk. I couldn't see it, but I heard more screams behind me, so I turned around to look, and sitting on my roof are 3 baby red tail hawks! All big enough to just start flying (far enough to go from the tree to my roof).
I decided it probably wasn't a good place to be, between a momma hawk and her babies, so I got it the truck and watched them for a minute. One took off and flew to a near by tree. Cool. Camera is at work. Darn it.
Next morning, I walk out, it's quiet for a change. I get to my truck and look in front of it and one of them is sitting on my fence, just hanging out. Camera still at work. Rats. Take photo with the phone. Get in the truck, look, and notice another one on the ground beside it, just looking around. I watch them for a few minutes, then start the truck and back up. About 10 feet back, I look and notice there is a full size bunny rabbit sitting right in front of the two of them. No more than 6 feet from either of them. They pay it no attention. Not wanting to clean up bunny parts, I chase them off and let the rabbit escape. Obviously they haven't learned that bunnies are food yet, or they wouldn't have been sitting there, all hanging out together.
I walk out this morning, 2 in my yard, just standing there. One was picking at something, one just standing there. Get my camera, rats, left better lens at work.... so I walk up about 10 feet from them, they carry on like I'm not there. I take a few photos and start to walk in the house. I look up, 2 more sitting on an old antenna on my house (yes, I know I need to take it down).
So 4 red tail hawks, all just hanging out, 2 in the yard, 2 on the roof.
Pretty cool to see so many so close. The squirrels were running all around the yard like nothing was wrong, about 15 feet from the two on the ground. Again, they obviously haven't learned to hunt yet.
The last photo, you can see the hawk on the fence and the rabbit at the edge of the driveway.